Autism News, 2017/03/25

For mental health reasons (I’m fine now, I just got overloaded by world events for a bit) I did not collect autism news during the months of January and February. I will not be making any attempt to retroactively collect news from this time: today’s Autism News post is for the news cycle starting March 1. Thanks for understanding.

Let’s start this cycle off with some political content: an ASAN toolkit on contacting your elected representatives.

Shannon des Roches Rosa gives advice for parents who just learned that their child is autistic. (This is a really good 101-level article. If you are new to this topic and looking for 101, it might be useful even if you are not a parent.)

Shelley Lorraine shares her story of adult diagnosis – and how it didn’t change other people’s reactions as much as she hoped it would.

About fun and play:

I don’t always share “someone did something nice for an autistic child” articles, but this soft immersive jungle gym is really cool.